Helpful Web Sites for Do-It-Yourself Web Designers

Part of the Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies Cheat Sheet

If you’re going it alone while building your Web site, you need all the help you can get. Fortunately, you can get quite a bit. The links in the following list take you to Web sites that you offer advice on site design, site graphics, and site add-ons. You can link to blogging sites, and podcast sites, and advertising sites. Some sites are just good sites to look at. Take what you can from each:

Web Site	What You'll Find There	Web Site	What You'll Find There
1&1	Web hosting	Movable Type	Web site design software
Adobe	Information about and links to Adobe's suite of media design tools	Network Solutions	Web hosting and online marketing
Audacity	A free audio editing tool	PayLoadz	An e-commerce service for selling digital downloads on your site
Blogger	A blogging host	PayPal	An e-commerce service for buying and selling from your Web site
Color Schemer Online	A tool to find just the right Web colors	Podcast Alley	A hub of great podcasts and podcasting help
Commission Junction	Online advertising and search engine marketing	The Podcast Network	A collection of current podcasts
Digital Family	Free Web design tutorials	Podcasting Tools	Resources for podcasting
Flash Arcade	Downloadable games designed with Flash	ProStores	Tools and help for opening a Web store
Flash Kit	Free Flash development tutorials	QuickTime	Applications for creating videos and streaming them on your Web site
gimp	A free, full-featured image editor	SWiSHzone	Flash tools and templates
Google AdSense	Make money by placing Google ads on your site	TypePad	A blogging host
IrfanView	A free image viewer for Windows	WordPress	A blogging host
LinkShare	An online marketing company	Yahoo! Merchant Solutions	Web hosting and e-commerce help